Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-12
~n. 1Inarmed Conquest.


The Unarmed Conquest.
M. Ernest Meyer published in the
Revue Politique ct Litteraire last
month, q paper which has aroused
the attention of the most earnest
thinkers. He foresees an inter-raclal
.xmed conflict at some time, centuries
hence: but the unaimed contest be-
4veen the Orient and the Occident,
h,a long since commenced, and is
destined to continue until it culmin-
.tes in the inevitable clash OF arms.
while the Western nations OF the
Old World are wasting their energies
and their wealth in wars or prepara-
tions for wars between themselves,
the power OF the common enemy
occult, irresistible, inexhaustlble-is
swelling like human deluge, over
flowing the barriers OF seas ana
~ ountains, inundating the earth with
it's mere waste. Still, the armed con-
test may be considered as very Tar
off indeed. Not SO the contest Tor
life and the mems OF earning the
rig ht TO live. 1t commenced very
long ago. China began many cen
turies ago TO invade the markets OF
the world. OF course the overflow OF
Il Il
h er population first burst south and
east of her-but the yellow flood had
eacbed Borneo in the time OF Marco
Polo = in the thirteenth century
The Chinese emigrants were every
where ill-received at all epochs;
decimated by massacres, slaught
cred by plaques and epidemics'
ruined by confscations, weigh
ed down into the deepes. slime
of misery by merciless taxes and
brutal laws; yet, like those ants
which persistently swarm by millions
into FIRE and water, till the flame is
extinguished or the food choked by
their mass, the Asiatics maintained
and multiplied their emigration.
Nowhere had such measures OF re-
preston been adopted against them
rs in the Philippines and throughout
Malaysia. In the year 1908, no less
than twenty-three thousand Chinese
were exterminated in the Philippines
alone; thousands more were slaugh-
tered in 1889; still another massacre
was deemed necessary in 1865; and
even as late as 1919, on the outbreak
of the cholera in Manila, there was
another great butchery. But in Ma
nilla and throughout the Philippines
the Chinese are still as numerous as
ever;-in 1881 they numbered one
quarter of a million. Here are few
figures out of many more that might
be given. Six years ago, in 1881,
there were 5000 Cinnamon in the
United States, 195, 200 in Latin Amer
ica. 25O, 200 in the Philippine Islands,
IS, 500 in the Guyanas, 1926, 900 in the
Dutch Islands, 10000 at Singapore,
105. 600 at AMMAN, 100000 in Cam
bodia, $4,000 in Cochin China, and
i SOC, 900 in Siam. These figures
have grown, no doubt, greatly during
the interval; and M. Meyer himself
omits in his list various regions
equally invaded,-Burmah, Austria
lia, Madagascar, Mauritius, and sew.
eral archipelagoes of the Pacific, and
the West Indies, and Central Asia
and the Indian coast. Think of i'll
the TAPPING rebellion cost twenty
millions of Chinese lives; the Kuldja
rebellion between two and th,ee mil
lions; and almost every year since
those awful occurrences, famines
and floods and plaques have swept
millions and millions to death; and
still the hundreds and hundreds OF
millions stifle and starve and strive
within the confinement of their colos-
sal empire of 4,419, ,150 square miles
Every city of the civilized world holds
them; they struggle everywhere
merely to find room to live,-oppor-
tunity to save money on wages OF
fifteen or twenty cents q day,-to
start business and make fortune
with q capital OF $50 or $lOO;-
and always, under the pressure of
the yellow population ihtensifes, and
the torrential rush OF its emigrants
broadens, and they die OF hunger for
very numbers at home! A Chinese
workman can nourish himself at a
cost OF from eight to ten cents day;
he can live on less. There is the
dangerl Four hundred and nine
millions of an Asiatic race capable OF
living at one-tenth the cost of living
10 European races! Imminent
says M. Meyers, "this danger is-the
danger Of the conquest, slow, sure,
silent, and pacific, of Europe by
China" If patriotism strive to keep
them out, self-interest will do quite
y much to invite them in. Nor
does the essayist encourage even the
finest French workmen, the weay-
4
-, the gunsmiths, the masons, the /